{"id":4853,"date":"2026-05-06T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:22:17","slug":"barcelona-interested-in-bournemouth-starlet-kroupi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4853","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona &#8216;interested&#8217; in Bournemouth starlet Kroupi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Barcelona are reportedly interested in signing Bournemouth forward Eli Junior Kroupi in the summer transfer window. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cherries signed the 19-year-old from FC Lorient for a fee of around \u00a312 million plus bonuses last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Kroupi has attracted numerous suitors after an impressive debut campaign in the Premier League, scoring 12 goals in 30 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United have all been linked with the teenager in recent months.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Barcelona \u2018interested\u2019 in Bournemouth starlet as big clubs circle<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Barcelona have now seemingly entered the race for Kroupi, with Sky Sports reporting that he has been \u201ctracked extensively\u201d by the Catalan outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a see the youngster as a \u201cprospect for the long-term\u201d, but Bournemouth are \u201cnot looking to sell\u201d him in the next transfer window.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Former Barcelona striker Thierry Henry praised Kroupi while speaking on Sky Sports on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been proving that he\u2019s a great goalscorer, very Jermain Defoe-like when he\u2019s in the box,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can play on the right, on the left. He has an eye for a goal and a he has a good future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Iraola overlooked for dream job amid Premier League links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013 Premier League clubs with most away points in 2025\/26<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow The Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are reportedly interested in signing Bournemouth forward Eli Junior Kroupi in the summer transfer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}